The best software engineers I have ever worked with have come from disciplines with different math focus: math, physics, physical engineering fields (mechanical

The best software engineers I have ever worked with have come from disciplines with different math focus: math, physics, physical engineering fields (mechanical, civil, etc.). Discrete math, the kind employed in CS curricula, is good for the theoretical discipline but in the vast majority of practical cases it’s sufficient to get by with a kind of CRC cheat sheet of algorithms and their performance characteristics, with corresponding language specific library implementations that someone from CS built. Although it does help to actually learn the underlying theory, too: makes one just that much more capable